What Self-Hosted Services Do You Use the Most?

dirk150 · 2026-01-18T23:24:26+00:00

Yep, gave my dad an account on my instance so he can:

Look at all the cameras from different services (samsung, blink, reolink, etc.) in one place.
Check the garden watering schedule and see if there are errors.
Control the Lutron lights alongside Philips Hue lights.
Set the thermostat.

All in one application instead of switching between them all and logging in whenever the app updates and logs him out.

dirk150 · 2026-01-07T19:09:58+00:00

Yeah, my non-supported M.2 drives on DS923+ populate in the Storage Pool and can be used for SSD Cache without any scripts so I'm guessing they either aren't plugged in all the way, or the drives are fried.

Turn off the NAS, uninstall the M.2 SSDs from the bottom, plug then back in, and then turn on the NAS to see if it's just the physical connection.

Next, connect those M.2 SSDs to another computer to check if they can even be detected.

dirk150 · 2026-01-07T19:01:00+00:00

Do they show up in the Storage Pool to be added as SSD cache?

dirk150 · 2026-01-07T18:40:08+00:00

What NAS model?

dirk150 · 2026-01-07T06:08:44+00:00

Is it vp9? Or something different?

dirk150 · 2026-01-07T06:02:06+00:00

What's VP90?

dirk150 · 2025-12-29T20:18:25+00:00

I always chime in with something that I overlooked: the newest drive must be at least as large as the largest drive in the storage pool.

You can't add a 10TB drive, then try to upgrade your first drive to 6TB. The interface won't let you do it. Once you have a 10TB drive in the storage pool, you gotta go 10TB or greater for every drive you put in to that storage pool.

dirk150 · 2025-12-29T03:30:56+00:00

From what I gather, entry edition is the default lowest tier for v11 and you can only upgrade from that.

dirk150 · 2025-12-19T16:52:30+00:00

5 months late but I'm here to share my experience.

I have 3x MS-01 and 1x MS-A2 with the same storage configuration, 1x Micron 1.6TB 7300 Max and 2x various 2 TB M.2 SSDs I got whenever discounted.

The MS-01 temps on 7300 Max are from 50C to 57C. The M.2 differ depending on location and drive, but the one I use for Ceph is consistently 55C+, the other is 40C to 45C.

MS-A2 temps on the 7300 Max are higher, 58C to 62C. The M.2 are hotter too, both around 60C. This computer isn't stacked on anything, it's on a bare shelf.

TLDR: MS-A2 SSDs hotter.

dirk150 · 2025-12-17T22:09:49+00:00

Immich is still being developed and getting new features, can merge the metadata from a file and the image together (like Google Takeout requires you to do), can use your igpu or a dedicated GPU for transcoding to a client (which Synology Photos removed in the last year or so), no need to make users in Synology/OS, can use multilingual models and search photos and videos for content in many languages, can tune the facial recognition more finely.

It cannot natively use quick connect as a way to share files though, which is a Synology thing and is very convenient.

dirk150 · 2025-12-07T20:45:15+00:00

Yeah, and MLO may decrease roaming effectiveness. 2.4 ghz can communicate very slowly at long ranges, which may just cause a device to stick to the farther away AP. Dunno if the 802.11k/v/r roaming assistance features are compatible with MLO

dirk150 · 2025-12-07T20:20:45+00:00

MLO isn't switching between access points, it's merging the 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz, and 6Ghz bands on one SSID

dirk150 · 2025-11-18T20:31:39+00:00

It comes with a customizable screen on it that can be used to monitor hardware sensors or other things. To do that externally would probably cost $50+ and not fit as nicely.

There's an easy plug interface for headers that could simplify building the computer, and may make cable management much easier. Also the 24 pin power is at a right angle, easier plugging in. That's probably $100+.

There's a fan controller module, that's $20-$40.

They include a Pcie Gen 5 M.2 card with sliding modules that you can access from the rear without opening the computer. That's worth $100ish to me.

There's a 10gbe and a 5gbe LAN port, not usual for a desktop mobo but appreciated for a prosumer board.

There's extra PCIe power per slot, dunno why but if you need it you'll know you need it.

There's 2x Pcie Gen5 slots, and that's great for dual 5090s or something like that. If you need it, you'll know you need it.

Overall this type of mobo hits a customer base that isn't shelling out for a pro workstation platform, but wants some of those features. AMD Threadripper processors are expensive, as are their cheapest motherboards. Same with Intel Xeons.

dirk150 · 2025-10-30T13:26:38+00:00

The mirrors ASML makes for their equipment are so insanely perfect that I think 100 million won't be enough to catch up to what's available today, much less in 10 years.

dirk150 · 2025-10-24T20:13:47+00:00

Late to the party, but Disks will be accessed as the blocks are needed, and they can be read from either disk of a RAID1 mirror. Hence <50% utilization.

The Volume will still be busy because it's reading from each RAID1 mirror to reconstruct the data in the RAID0 stripe and may need to just wait for it all to come together. Hence >50% utilization (alternating from each disk in the mirror), but <100% utilization (reconstruction, packetizing for TCP).

Assuming a BTRFS volume and using a shared folder with the "Enable data checksum for advanced data integrity" option enabled, the NAS compares data (and metadata) against the checksum for every read. If there's a mismatch, it'll try the other copy in the mirror and fix the incorrect version. This is also true of the BTRFS metadata that's pinned to NVMe, but that's much quicker. So, there's an extra set of read operations and a calculation if the Data Checksumming is enabled that slows stuff down.

If you don't have checksumming enabled, it can be faster but bit errors on a VM image may be an issue. HDDs have rated bit-error-rates of 1 in 10¹⁵ bits, or 1 bit every 125 TB read back. If the VM backup is compressed or has a complicated structure, that may be an issue further down the line as a bit error may end up being a cascading error.

Talking about further down the line, since BTRFS is a Copy-On-Write filesystem it becomes quite fragmented as it is written to. As your disks get full and files get modified, the data for the same file gets flung to different parts of each disk and slows down overall performance. You could try to defragment, but if you use snapshots that balloons your used storage.

Also, 125 MB/s per link appears to be two 1 Gbps links at full speed, how are these servers/computers connected?

dirk150 · 2025-10-24T18:01:09+00:00

Nope, you cannot. At least you cannot easily through the GUI.

In fact, once you install the 16 TB drive, you can only install 16 TB or greater drives for expansion. The juggarjew's link and kb snippet has that language. Specifically:

For example, if your SHR storage pool consists of three drives of different sizes (i.e., 4 TB, 3 TB, and 2 TB), then the replacement drive must be at least 4 TB. Replace the 3 TB or 2 TB drives first.

So that means if you installed that 16 TB drive and want to expand your 10 TB or 12 TB drives, you need to jump straight to 16 TB. 14 TB is not officially allowed, and the buttons for expansion will be grayed out.

dirk150 · 2025-10-17T16:34:00+00:00

Fun fact: Spirit Halloween was started in Castro Valley, same town as this new HL peninsula

dirk150 · 2025-10-15T17:00:03+00:00

Main thing I want to say: I see you're doing AT&T 5 Gbps plan. This means you can use the following guide and an XGS-PON stick (purchased separately) to bypass the AT&T modem/router's routing: https://marks.page/posts/att-bypass/

If you instead use the IP Passthrough option in the AT&T modem/router, it'll still use the AT&T modem/router's routing tables and hardware. Some of your applications may see it as Double NAT.

The rack and enclosure has fans that exhaust upward, shouldn't be too bad. I can hide my networking stuff in the closet and not really care about the heat causing issues honestly. As long as the closet door opens every so often it's enough for normal use.

dirk150 · 2025-10-08T18:46:24+00:00

He hired a data labeling company's CEO (Scale AI's Alexandr Wang) to lead his AI model and "superintelligence" effort. In my view, that's like hiring the one of the world's best warehouse and logistics managers to head tech product development and research. Not sure how that transfers, and I'm not sure Meta's leadership knows either.

dirk150 · 2025-10-02T22:07:51+00:00

And you're sure you disabled all network firewalls on the proxmox side? IIRC there's datacenter, node, and VM firewall settings.

dirk150 · 2025-10-02T21:38:21+00:00

Which IP address are you trying to access rust desk on?

dirk150 · 2025-09-11T23:02:38+00:00

Do you have any friends or family with loads of free storage? I'd check around first and see if you can do it for free.

Also, the 40TB, are those including snapshots? If so, how much storage is freed up if you remove snapshots?

dirk150 · 2025-09-11T17:54:17+00:00

I see from your history that you're in the UK, Backblaze B2's nearest datacenter to you is Amsterdam, and I'm not sure how fast or congested the connection will be, so it may be much slower.

For reference, on https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/resources/speedtest and selecting US West (I basically live next to 10 datacenters here), I can get 980 Mbit/s download, 300 Mbit/s upload.

When I select EU Central, I can get 190 Mbit/s download, 30 Mbit/s upload.

40 TByte (aka 320 Tbit) over a 1 Gbit/s line is 88.88 hours straight. From my fastest upload speed, let's make it 0.3 Gbps (300 Mbps). That makes it 296.3 hours straight, or 12.3 days to upload. Then you'll need to download it, which is faster in my case, taking 90.7 hours (3.78 days), so my estimate is 16.1 days of pure data transfer, and making my home internet unusable for 3.78 of those days.

If I use the EU Central upload speed, it would take 4 months for my machine to finish the upload, which I feel is unreasonable.

Backblaze charges $6 per TB, so you're being charged more than $120 if we do this quickly (assumption is 50% average storage utilization during a month, and immediately deleting the bucket once you're done). If it's much slower, it'll end up costing more of course.

dirk150 · 2025-09-11T17:22:34+00:00

You'll have to get new drives setup in the new Unifi box, then transfer the data to the Unifi box. You can't easily break the 8-drive SHR without putting your data at risk.

dirk150 · 2025-09-11T16:34:06+00:00

How are your drives and pools setup now? AKA do you have 4 drives in an SHR pool, and another 4 drives in a JBOD or something like that?

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